(Izdošanas datums: 05-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816555437)
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contex...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816553396)
Narrating Mexicos evolution of fire through five eras--pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880-1980), and contemporary (1980-2015)--this volume relies on the myth of the five suns that the Aztecs used to characterize their histor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816549238)
The Earth is fast transitioning from a planet shaped by ice to one shaped by fire in all its manifestations. Yosemite National Park offers a microcosm for understanding our current world. Stephen J. Pyne tells the story of how fire got removed f...Lasīt vairāk
Ben A Minteer, Mark Klett, Stephen J. Pyne, Roderick Frazier Nash
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Nov-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300260724)
A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness h...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Aug-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520391635)
A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over timeand our responsibility to reorient this relationship before its too late.?The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding spe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Sep-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520383586)
A dramatic reorientation of humanity&;s relationship with fireThe Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earths history. Since terrestrial...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816541119)
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contex...Lasīt vairāk
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch.Australia is one of the worlds fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816540129)
Reprints selected, lightly edited, essays from the 9 regional volumes of the series that speak with special power for each region, plus one new essay on the 2017-18 fire season in California. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping vi...Lasīt vairāk
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Focus on Natural Forces In a historical moment gripped by environmental catastrophes of our own making, Julius von Bismarck confronts the forces of nature at their unruly extremes. Deploying sculpture, photography, video and technological...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireFire
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295746180)
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pynenamed by Science magazine as the world...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireFire
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295746203)
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pynenamed by Science magazine as the world...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816538799)
Slopovers collates surveys of three regions into the national narrative. With a unique mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, renowned fire expert Stephen J. Pyne shows how culture and nature, fire from nature and fire...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816538904)
Pyne, a fire specialist, surveys the fire history of the Northeast US, including Pennsylvania, the New Jersey pinelands, the Adirondacks, the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, Staten Island, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as the Northeast Fire Protec...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816537891)
An engaging guide to creativity and craft in nonfiction by the accomplished author of more than thirty successful books--Provided by publisher. Building on his earlier book Voice and Vision, the author details literary tools and strategies...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816538539)
Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by culture, and by time. It has no single expressio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2018, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816537709)
Its fires help to give the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region—defined here as Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado—its fires illuminate the ways...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2017, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816535125)
Provides a wide look at plains wildland fire in the 21st century and how it is interconnected with other themes of life and culture in the Midwest--Provided by publisher. Early descriptions of the Great Plains often focus on a vast,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532483)
The Southwest is part of the multivolume series describing the nations fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, Florida, and several other critical fire regions--...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816533510)
Its a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like that in Mann Gulch that shaped the literature...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532728)
In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532612)
In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes Californias fire scene unique...Lasīt vairāk
Pyne (life sciences, Arizona State U.), a fire historian and former firefighter, recounts the fires that occurred in the summer of 1910 that burned millions of acres in the Northern Rockies and how US Forest Service fire policy was changed to full su...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816532148)
Between Two Fires relates the play-by-play of the fire revolution and its aftermath--Provided by publisher. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of Americas fire revo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816531820)
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Between Two Fires relates the play-by-play of the fire revolution and its aftermath--Provided by publisher. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of Americas fire revo...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireBurning Bush
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Sep-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295998824)
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Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers. Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Weyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireWeyerhaueser Cycle of FireVestal Fire
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jul-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295996172)
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Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationsh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Apr-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226259826)
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethosto en...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226259963)
Looks at environmentalism in America and the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, agriculture, and industrial intensification have had on the preservation and protection of nature. From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation...Lasīt vairāk
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of lifes history. Few processe...Lasīt vairāk
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of lifes history. Few processe...Lasīt vairāk
An illuminating investigation into the Pleistocene eras dual character as a geologic time and a cultural idea explains the global changes that created our world while describing how ideas about the Pleistocene have shaped intellectual culture, scien...Lasīt vairāk
Rebecca A. Senf, Stephen J. Pyne, Mark Klett, Byron Wolfe
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520273900)
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2012, CD-Audio, Izdevniecība: Gildan Media Corporation, ISBN-13: 9798200634736)
An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocenes dual character as a geologic timeand as a cultural idea The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. Its a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctionsof woolly r...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2012, CD-Audio, Izdevniecība: Gildan Media Corporation, ISBN-13: 9798200634729)
An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocenes dual character as a geologic timeand as a cultural idea The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. Its a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctionsof woolly r...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780670023639)
A discussion of the Pleistocene eras dual character as a geologic time and a cultural idea explains the global changes of the era while describing how ideas about the Pleistocene have shaped intellectual culture, science, and modern beliefs about hu...Lasīt vairāk
Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, Jordan Sand, Stephen Pyne
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2012, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299283841)
In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study...Lasīt vairāk
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Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page. --The New York Times Book Review As debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne presents Americas...Lasīt vairāk
It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. Voice and Vision is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art—that is, literature. And while it has...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jul-2010, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780670021833)
An assessment of the current state of the Voyager space program traces its origins in the 1957 Sputnik launch and evaluates the programs relevance and its imminent departure from the solar system. An assessment of the current state of the Vo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674033306)
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Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. --from publisher...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2008, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774813921)
Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canadas forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses, and since Confederation, the cou...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774813914)
A quote comparing a fire witnessed to a volcano in full activity from the Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 sets the stage for this volume by a leading chronicler of the cultural and environmental history of fire. Pyn...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-2007, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781587296185)
As Stephen Pyne reveals in his biography, few other scientists can match Grove Karl Gilberts range of talents. A premier explorer of the American West who made major contributions to the cascade of new discoveries about the earth, Gilbert descr...Lasīt vairāk
